Self-Driving Cars Have to Decide Whether Passengers or Pedestrians Are More Important

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You may have heard that self-driving cars are safer than cars with human drivers. And that’s probably true. Still, as driverless vehicles inch closer and closer to the country’s freeways and side streets, we’ll probably hear more and more about AI-controlled vehicles getting into deadly accidents. Even a perfect driver can’t avoid every accident. So if a self-driving car finds itself in a situation where a deadly accident is inevitable, how should it make a decision to minimize the damage?

— Read on curiosity.com/topics/self-driving-cars-have-to-decide-whether-passengers-or-pedestrians-are-more-important-curiosity

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NASA’s First Asteroid-Sampling Spacecraft Is About to Reach Its Destination. Here’s What’s Next

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A NASA spacecraft is on a rendezvous with history. The OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) spacecraft is on final approach to asteroid Bennu for a December 3 arrival, when it will enter the asteroid’s orbit. Next comes an incredible 18 months of preparations for the spacecraft to make its date with history: landing on the rock itself in order to pick up a sample to send back to Earth. Here’s why that’s exciting.

— Read on curiosity.com/topics/nasas-first-asteroid-sampling-spacecraft-is-about-to-reach-its-destination-heres-whats-next-curiosity

Central Banks Looking at Creating Their Own Cryptocurrencies | Armstrong Economics

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The IMF has recommended that all Central banks should issue their own cryptocurrencies. Indeed, they are looking at using Block Chain to keep track of taxes and to enforce negative interest rates with cryptocurrencies which would allow them to impose negative interest rates whenever necessary. With adopting cryptocurrencies that governments would control, we will come one step closer to losing all our freedom. Central banks could enforce negative interest rates with cryptocurrencies and thus people would find their accounts just garnished. This technology is also causing those in hunt of tax revenues to lick their lips. The issuance of digital currencies would allow central banks to remain in control of the money supply far more so than they are today. Sweden is moving forward and there we see that the use of cash is rapidly disappearing. Cryptocurrency technology would allow also the taxman to just cometh and take whatever he desires in the midst of the economic crisis we face. The Central Banks would be able to maintain greater control over the creation of money through the process of leverage (bank lending). While policymakers in Canada have already researched the idea. The IMF head Christine Lagarde called on central banks to focus on issuing digital currencies. All of this attention is being applied as the fear of rising interest rates in the marketplace is really beyond the control of central banks. It is true that central banks can control the short-term rates, but long-term rates are established by the free market. This is why the Federal Reserves was buying in 30-years bonds hopefully to impact the long-term rates which the Fed cannot directly control.
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/cryptocurrency/central-banks-looking-at-creating-their-own-cryptocurrencies/